Pros
- Used to be such a great place to learn and gain experience - Great colleagues although many of the best have moved on - Fast pace and interesting market - Snacks
Cons
- Passionate and inspiring CEO that leaves employees feeling manipulated at the realization that on a personal level, the feeling was never mutual. - Senior employees (maybe all) are treated as disposable and under appreciated. - The new and remaining executives are just cogs in the machine and don't bring the energy, enthusiasm and dedication to winning that only founders can incite. - The new wave of executives - Passionate and inspiring CEO that leaves employees feeling manipulated when there was ultimately little concern about employees on a personal level - Senior employees (maybe all) are treated as disposable and under appreciated. - Disconnect between product development/R&D and the market. - Company has always played catchup and feature wars with other companies rather than innovating and leading the market. Even the best me-too features doesn't guarantee success. - CEO and executive team have always leaned toward educating the market rather than serving it. - Due to lacking market perception and response, ROI has always been hard to find. - Despite hiring some of the best and brightest, god forbid you have any ideas of your own. If you don't march to the flavor-of-the-week strategy which has proven to often be wrong, you will be replaced - In the march towards an acquisition, I saw very capable colleagues replaced by new executives with IPO affiliations/branding on their resumes (read not experience). - Massive salesforce (now downsized) tripping over each other with the most capable of the team leaving en masse or exchanged for re-sellers.